Self-Knowledge is “unappetizing”

“La connaissance de soi est à la fois inutile et inappétissante. Qui souvent s’examine n’avance guère dans la connaissance de lui-même. Et moins on se connaît, mieux on se porte”. (Clément Rosset (1999))

(“Self-knowledge is both unnecessary and unappetizing. Those who often examine themselves do not much advance in the knowledge of themselves. And the less we know ourselves, the better we  feel.”)

There is no self without the other and no other without the self… Trying to know ourselves without reflecting on the hyphen between self and other does not map sense…